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15th Oct 2008 adobe released Flash Player version 10.If you want to know what is new in adobe flash player 10 check this.In this tutorial we will see how to install dobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04.

Preparing your system

Remove your existing Flash plugin, if you have one installed. This command will remove Flash 9 if you installed it from Ubuntu’s repository

Click the download link to begin installation. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to save the installer to your desktop.

Save the .deb package to your desktop, and wait for it to download completely.

Double-click on the .deb package and follow the instructions to complete installation.

or

Use the following command from your terminal

sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

This will complete the installation.

Method 2

Using apturl

First you need to make sure you have installed apturl using the following command

sudo apt-get install apturl

Now you need to go to the download page menctioned above click on linux section from dropdown box select APT for Ubuntu 8.04+ Click the download link and follow the instructions to complete installation.

To get the most up-to-date Flash Player in the future, issue the following commands from the Terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

Verify your plugin Installation

To verify the plugin is installed in Mozilla, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

or

In your broweser enter the following command and check

about:plugins

For 64 bit Users

Thanks to Alejandro for this nice script.First you need to Download shell script from here Using the following command

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Machado:
“the 64 bits edition didn’t work for me i dunno why all the install progress works fine but when i open any site which needs flash plugin it asks me to download it”

I’m on 64-bit Jaunty, and I had the same problem. It took me FOREVER to figure this one out:

You need to make sure the plugin is in the proper location, which is somewhat mysterious. You’re getting that message because it’s searching where it *should* be and getting a link that leads to nothing. There are several different “firefox-related” plugin directories. I had to try several different locations before I found the one that worked:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.whatever/plugins/

So, this script you just ran basically put a plugin file named libflashplayer.so somewhere, probably under /home/your-username/.mozilla/plugins/

This file needs to be moved from here to the location I just stated above.

Furthermore, you may need to go through every last little “mozilla” or “firefox” related directory in your system and nuke any links that might be pointing to an incorrect location:

Correction to above instructions:
I didn’t realize which article I was responding to. This article’s method is actually installing the 32-bit version with a workaround for 64-bit users, if I remember correctly.
(Admin?)

You do not need to do all this anymore to install the flash plugin for 64-bit systems. Adobe has released a 64-bit binary of Flash Player 10.0.
You can download it at “http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/”.

Unzip the file and proceed same way as my previous instructions. It goes in /lib/firefox-3.whatever-version/plugins/

New to Linux here. Don’t understand a lot of the instructions I find out there. Anywhere for that matter.
I’m running a (32 bit) HP system with Ubuntu(8.04) and Firefox (3.0.16). I just can’t get Adobe Flash Player (10.0.42.34) installed. I keep getting a message saying that it is already installed BUT I cannot view Flash content.
Why is this so difficult for me? Wait… don’t answer that. I probably wouldn’t like the answer, ha, ha.
Newbie Blues…… sigh!

Ooooops, I guess 7 times is good luck. 3 times I downloaded the deb package and tried to install that directly. Then, I followed what was listed in the instructions above for the 4th time and it finally stuck. I am not really sure what I did differently but suddenly I am able to view Flash content.
Thanks for making information like this available. It obviously helped me a lot.
Who knows. Maybe someday I will figure all this out.

Yes. After weeks of trying and searching forums and testing various “fool-proof” methods that don’t work, I gave up and upgraded to Ubuntu 10. This solved the problem, as the flash 10 plugin comes with it (or it recognised the flash 10 libraries I had tried to install, frankly i don’t know, but it works now).

So, unsless you have some Ubuntu 8.04 specific things going on that you’d lose by upgrading to Ubuntu 10, I strongly recommend this option. It’s very stable and I’m happy with it. Hope you’ll be too.